Word: downheartedness
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More and more turbulent grew Philadelphia's liquor ring investigation (TIME, Sept. 17). The city's bootleggers, finding the local distilling plants padlocked were not downhearted. They ordered shipments of alcohol from Porto Rico via New York. These goods were seized, however.
But respecters of Chairman Butler's political sagacity looked at it this way: Suppose the Hooverites are downhearted now. Suppose Keynoter Fess prepares to extol the Coolidge virtues and record. Then, suppose Candidate Hoover is allowed more and more to inherit the Coolidge virtues, record and support. The effect...
Tilden in the semifinals, 2-6, 4-6, 7-5, 6-4, 6-3. Said Mr. Tilden: "Age, I think it is. I used to win this sort of match myself. But are we downhearted ? No."
Not downhearted, the Kent boys prepared for invitation battles with Eton and Radley.
The Ford supporters were not downhearted, however. In spite of the fact that the Committee had voted more than two to one against them, they prepared to offer the Ford proposal as a substitute for the Norris Bill when the latter was discussed on the floor of the Senate.